Teacher Adaptations

Throughout the development of The Good Project lesson plans we have encouraged educators to make adaptations to the lessons to fit their own specific students, classrooms, and cultural contexts. We know that you, the educators, are the experts in your own settings and have the best sense of whether or not the lessons need to be changed to fit your setting.

For example, one model from Laeen and colleagues (2019) discussed how different curriculum can be better localized to one’s context. Take a look at the image below to think about how you could use this model to adapt different lessons to your own context.

In our own study, we asked teachers in particular how they adapted the materials during the first year of our 2022-2025 research study. During this time the lessons plans were different than they are now: there were 16 lessons developed for a one year curriculum broken up into four units, with four lessons per unit. Teachers were asked to provide feedback to us in “mini-surveys” after each lesson they completed that year, and, in particular, were asked to tell us about any adaptations they made to the lessons. Although the lessons have already been adapted with this feedback in mind, here we provide this feedback from teachers so that you can, too, can gain inspiration about the types of adaptations you might make to the lesson plans. You’ll also see suggestions and adaptations from our teachers throughout the lesson plans in “call out” boxes. Make sure to take a look!

PRIMARY ADAPTATIONS BY TEACHERS 2022-2023

The main areas of adaptation as described by teachers participating in the research study during the 2022-2023 academic year.